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...most recent buzzword favored by the Reagan Administration in explaining its strategy toward Central America is "symmetry." The term ties together the problems of the region's two most serious trouble spots, El Salvador and Nicaragua. By symmetry, the Administration means that it intends to do unto the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua precisely what it believes the Sandinistas are doing to the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador: aid the guerrillas who seek its overthrow. The strategy is to reach the point at which governments and insurgents in both El Salvador and Nicaragua will join in a ceasefire...
...statement sparked a race between moderates and leftists for control of the badly divided party. Deputy Leader Denis Healey, 65, by far the best known of the centrists and one of Britain's liveliest political figures, was deemed out of the race because of his age. Also benched was Tony Benn, 58, longtime archangel of Labor's radical left, who lost his seat in Parliament in the election. Last week's front runner was Neil Kinnock, 41, a staunch leftist whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions...
Spearheaded by the activist 23,000-member Copper Workers Confederation, Chile's largest union, the protest movement has attracted support from a broad range of Chilean opinion: labor leaders, conservative and leftist politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will...
...resent the nation's 3 million whites, who have dominated Peru's economy and politics ever since the Spanish conquest in 1533. The threat of ethnic conflict has been partly responsible for a surprising show of unity behind Belaúnde's emergency measures, which even leftist Opposition Leader Senator Enrique Bernales admitted were "justified...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...